Security Update for Flash Player (3049508)

This security update for Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 and 11 on supported editions of Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is also available. The details of the vulnerabilities are documented in Adobe security bulletin APSB15-06. This update addresses the vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player by updating the affected Adobe Flash binaries contained within Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11. For more information, please see Microsoft Security Advisory 2755801.

Disabling SSL 3.0

As communicated in our February 2015 security updates blog, today we’re releasing an update that disables SSL 3.0 by default in Internet Explorer 11. Enterprise customers can choose to enable SSL 3.0 for compatibility with their web applications, however we strongly recommend instead that they update their web servers and web applications to use latest security protocols such as TLS 1.2. For more information, please see Microsoft Security Advisory 3009008.

Staying up-to-date

Most customers have automatic updates enabled and will not need to take any action because these updates will be downloaded and installed automatically. Customers who have automatic updates disabled need to check for updates and install this update manually.

– Maliha Qureshi, Senior Program Manager, Customer Experience Quality

[Updated on 4/15/2015 at 11:00 AM to include Security Update for Flash Player (3049508). - ed]

What about the IE blocking the entire machine and freezing the mouse bug? Go to WSJ.com wall street journal and right click open in new tab on each news headline one at a time waiting for each to load. One or more of them will freeze IE for 10 – 30 seconds. This happens on other sites all when opening link in a new tab – Windows 7 64 bit machines with the latest OS and IE patches as of March 2015.

When I uninstalled IE 11, used Windows 7's original IE 8 to add a search provider, and reinstalled IE 11, the search settings remained in place. But KB3038314 still failed to install. How did you get KB3038314 to install?

The performance of replacing a large innerHtml element and the replaceChild method are significantly slower across all IE versions now. The size of the innerHtml element content being replaced is 1MB, where previously it took 300ms to execute the call now takes 40 seconds.

It would appear the April Patches have been causing network delays with some web applications; they have been postponed in my environment until further notice. However, I would like to add the new feature "IE 7 Enterprise Mode" is actually addressing issues for some legacy web apps where IE 8 EM alone wasn't getting the job done. Being able to trigger 'Compat View' at the site level rather than the domain level is a nice addition to the EMIE suite. Good Job!